1940s
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[[fr:Ann�es 1940]]Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
Events and Trends
- World's first working programmable computer
- World War II ends
- The shoa
- First nuclear bomb
- Beginning of the Cold War
- Independence for some former colonies
- 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life
- Mathematics: game theory, cryptology
- The NBA begins play, in 1947.
World Leaders
- President Lin Sen (Republic of China)
- President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany)
- Mohandas Gandhi (India)
- Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (India)
- Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel)
- King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
- Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
- Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
- Pope Pius XII
- Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
- King George VI (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Clement Attlee (United Kingdom)
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (United States)
- President Harry S. Truman (United States)
- Taoiseach Eamon de Valera ([[�ire]])
- Taoiseach John A. Costello (Republic of Ireland)
- Governor Luis Munoz Marin (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico)
Sports Figures
Entertainers
- Abbott and Costello
- Ingrid Bergman
- Humphrey Bogart
- James Cagney
- Bing Crosby
- Bette Davis
- Clark Gable
- Cary Grant
- Katharine Hepburn
- Bob Hope
- Jimmy Stewart
- Spencer Tracy
- Orson Welles
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "1940s" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940s December 12, 2003
